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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE FIRST RAYS OF THE MORNING SUN as it rises over Old Havana light up the gilded cupolas of the first Russian Orthodox church in Cuba and the Caribbean Basin, which was built in honor of the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God.
The church was ceremonially consecrated in the very heart of Havana almost three years ago with a large gathering of people in attendance. Cuban leader, Army General Raul Castro, Parliament Chairman Ricardo Alarcon, and other high-ranking state officials took part in the ceremony. Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchy, and now Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia performed the consecration ritual. It was he who placed the cornerstone of the future cathedral on November 14, 2004. The consecration was followed by a ceremonial liturgy.
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